Nick Collecchi

more
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IDAHO

Something I think about a lot is that much of what is going on fits the theory that the wealthy know climate change is real and believe that the “solution” is to kill seven billion or so humans.

Bob Newhart! The Smothers Brothers! Not today, too bad.
Met Dick Smothers 10 years or so ago coming into the Sundance Cinemas. I was thrilled, passed him in to UNDER THE SKIN after chatting with him a bit, looked around at my staff realizing that none of them would have any idea why I felt that way.

Damn, wanted to enthusiastically support your FORREST GUMP opinion. Alas.
And also agree on AMELIE. Met Juenet on promo tour for ...ENGAGEMENT which is excellent for different reasons. Shook his hand & thanked him for his anti war message so well done.

Game recognize game.

Finally, CITY LIGHTS (oddly mispelled in the ad) at the Grenada Organ Loft is my choice this visit, Chaplin doesn’t get old like theatres and viewers do.
Fin/

Shoot, the Guild is a double feature with IF… , choices to be made. POINT BLANK as the 2nd feature at Coliseum also worthy. 3/

High school me enjoyed the low profile THE REIVERS, I’d see it again now. Never saw THE LORD OF THE FLIES, I’d see it at the Exit just for their free cheese & crackers. 2/

In the indie world, only the Harvard Exit at this point, the Movie House & University Cinema don’t seem to be on the scene just yet. Soon, soon.
PUTNEY SWOPE (Varsity) is brilliant, MEDIUM COOL (Guild 45th) had a moment in time, now forgotten.
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HAROLD AND MAUDE.
One of the handfull of perennials that indie theatres in the 70’s & 80’s could book on short notice to make money to pay down bills. Deserved all the love that it got.
Not the obit I wanted to see today. RIP.

Next year at SoFi.

Still miss the tattered luxury of the Empire Builder I rode in the mid-70’s. Designed to compete with the growing airline trade in the late 40’s. But this is a big improvement over what it replaces.

Easier to anschluss than to close the myriad exits north. He wants to play with his food, like any other infant.

And yet, in 2016 she outpolled everyone else nationally. But in our system, rural states get bonus votes.

Immigrants are good, actually. Instead of terrorizing them, we should—as a nation of immigrants—welcome them and aspire to be more like them.

He made sure he had cover. No points awarded.

Don't overlook Jeffries.

What makes you think they don't?

Can America build beautiful places again? Ugliness has more to do with the housing crisis than you think.

Why is the modern American built environment overwhelmingly ugly & soul-deadening? And should YIMBYs care? Our housing crisis is a nightmare for millions of Americans, but could it also, maybe, be a rare invitation to rebuild the way we live?

Beauty matters! I wrote about it here (gift link):

"Slow down to fuck over ICE" is actually an anti-speeding message that may resonate with drivers

Sign on door prohibiting immigration enforcement on private property

Shelf filled with goggles and whistles

This is Minneapolis:

Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city.

Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.

The “where were you born?” part is what’s really getting me. You can be born somewhere else and become a US citizen. That’s how many of our relatives got here including that very agent’s. This guy can go to hell

I shouldn’t have overlooked PENNIES FROM HEAVEN, well done but audiences didn’t flock.
Pike Place Cinema, where I worked at the time, *might* have been TICKET TO HEAVEN then, scary drama about cults.

THEY ALL LAUGHED is *adult* entertainment, I enjoyed it at the time w/o being a parent, also REDS, RAGTIME, RAIDERS, CHARIOTS OF FIRE & ABSENCE OF MALICE.

There’s a page missing. No ads for Seven Gables Theatres, the Varsity, the Grand Illusion, Pike Place Cinema, University Cinemas, Landmark’s Neptune & Harvard Exit. And half the listings.

starting a rumor that the agency's full name is Legal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or LICE

I can’t remember who pointed this out, but it’s telling that ever since cellphone & surveillance cameras became ubiquitous we haven’t seen proof of a single UFO but we did suddenly have incontrovertible evidence of countless murders committed by cops.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Reset the Chronometer in the chronomobile, this is 1960.

Worth noting THE LAST ANGRY MAN, the great Paul Muni’s last feature, also earning him an Oscar nomination; opens tomorrow at the Coliseum.

Youngster.
Between kids mats at the Admiral in Bremerton and KIRO’s Sat Afternoon Sci Fi Theater, musy have seen this a dozen times. Almost as many x as ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS.